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Read before Irondequoit Chapter, Daughters of the 

American Revolution, Rochester, N, Y. 

January 7th, 1904 



AN EPISODE OF THE 
SULLIVAN CAMPAIGN 
AND ITS SEQUEL 




jFTER the destruction of Andrustown, 
German Flats and Cherry Valley and 
during the winter of 1778—9, numer- 
ous bands of Indians, and Tories 
disguised as Indians, were constantly 
prowling around the border settle- 
ments, killing many of the settlers and committing 
many depredations upon their property, thus keeping 
them in an unceasing state of terror and apprehension. 
This condition of affairs very seriously interfered with 
the tide of emigration that was beginning to flow west- 
ward and prevented the settlement and development 
of the western portions of New York and Pennsylvania. 
General Washington became thoroughly convinced of 
the necessity of instituting a vigorous campaign against 
these marauding bands and of pushing the action into 
the heart of the enemy's country if possible. The 
subject was formally brought to the notice of Congress 
and that body, on the 27th of February, 1779, Passed 
a resolution authorizing General Washington to take 
such measures as promised to be most effectual for the 
protection of the border settlers. 

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In the early part of 1779 ^^ ^^^ determined to make 
a combined movement into the Indian country of 
Western New York and Pennsylvania, with two strong 
divisions of military, one from Pennsylvania and one 
from the North, at a season of the year when the corn 
fields and orchards of the tribes of the Six Nations 
were fully laden with grain and fruits, the purpose 
being to destroy their supplies and drive them from 
their settlements, thus leaving them destitute, and pre- 
vent them from furnishing supplies to the British 
garrison at Niagara. General Sullivan was placed in 
command, leading in person the division that ascended 
the Susquehanna, while General James Clinton com- 
manded the forces that penetrated from the eastward 
by way of the Mohawk Valley, the two divisions 
meeting on August 22, 1779, ^^ Tioga. 

Upon August 26th the army broke camp and took 
up its march into an unknown country, through dense 
forests into the very heart of the enemy's home, with 
very little to guide them, as the only available maps 
were imperfectly drawn, and by men who knew little 
or nothing about the new country. The devastation 
and ruin wrought upon the Indian settlements by this 
little army are too well known to recount in detail and 
we will pass over the intervening events until the loth 
of September, when the division reached the village of 
Kanandarqua (Canandaigua). In a few hours this 
beautiful little town was reduced to ashes. Hanneyaye 
or Anyeaya (now Honeoye), the settlement lying next 
in the path of the invaders, was soon destroyed. Here 

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a post was established and left in charge of a strong 
garrison and here also were left the heavy stores and 
one or two field pieces, while the command, thus light- 
ened, proceeded toward Genesee Castle, which was the 
great village of the Senecas and was often called Little 
Beard's Town, after its chief. On Evans' map it ap- 
pears as Chenandoanes and was located between the 
west bank of the Genesee river and the present village 
of Cuylerville, in the town of Leicester, Livingston 
county. So far, with the exception of the battle at 
Newtown, fought on the 29th of August, the Indians 
had fled before the army in terror and their villages 
were destroyed without an effort being made to defend 
them, but now the beautiful valley of the Genesee, that 
paradise of the Six Nations, was in danger. A hurried 
council of the villages of the plain was called and the 
now thoroughly alarmed Indians resolved, at all haz- 
ards, to defend their homes from further invasion. 

On the morning of September 12th, when General 
Sullivan reached his encampment, he supposed that he 
was near the great Genesee Castle, of which he had 
heard so much and which was really the objective point 
of the expedition. He ordered that an officer and three 
or four riflemen, together with Hanyerry, an Oneida 
chief, acting as guide, should make a hasty inspection 
of the surrounding country and report at headquarters 
not later than sunrise on the following morning. 
Lieutenant Thomas Boyd was the officer selected for 
this service because of his peculiar fitness for the work, 
based upon his experience in scout duty during the 

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Mohawk campaign, at Oriskany and elsewhere. It 
was here, however, that Boyd departed from the strict 
letter of his instructions. He took with him twelve 
riflemen, six musketmen of the Fourth Pennsylvania 
regiment and eight volunteers, making, with himself, 
Hanyerry the guide, and Captain Jehoiakim, a Stock- 
bridge Indian, twenty-nine men. This was his first 
mistake, for the number was too few if battle was 
intended and too many if secrecy and haste were ex- 
pected. Hanyerry, the Oneida chief, had proven his 
unwavering attachment and faithfulness to the American 
cause in many ways. He was selected as guide for 
Boyd and his little band, not because of any knowledge 
of the surrounding wilderness but on account of his 
thorough understanding of Indian habits and Indian 
methods of warfare. The little party left camp bravely 
with the full knowledge and realization that they were 
surrounded by dangers of every kind. They followed 
the trail but a little way when it divided and, having 
no accurate information as to their exact location, 
hesitated and then took the trail leading to the im- 
portant town of Gatht-seg-war-o-ha-re, two miles 
further up the Canaseraga, instead of the path leading 
to the abandoned Che-nus-si-o. The site of the former 
village is now occupied by a country seat known as 
" The Hermitage." 

Reaching this place in the early morning Boyd halted 
and with one of his men, Timothy Murphy, recon- 
noitered. They found evidences of the town having 
been recently abandoned in haste and he sent four of 

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his men back to General Sullivan to report his discov- 
eries. Soon four Indians on horseback were seen 
entering the village. One of these Indians they killed 
while the other three escaped, one of them being badly 
wounded. Boyd's fate was doubtless sealed from that 
hour, as the alarm and the warning must have been 
speedily spread throughout the hostile lines. Boyd 
immediately set out on his return to camp, but, after 
marching about five miles, he again halted and de- 
spatched two men to the general, informing him of his 
whereabouts and announcing his determination to re- 
main there and await the coming up of the army, as 
his men were too exhausted from the hard and rapid 
marches in the heat, to make it possible for them to 
press on further. The two messengers, however, soon 
returned, reporting that they had seen a party of five 
Indians on the trail. Boyd instantly resumed his 
march, soon overtook the Indians, fired upon and 
pursued them. This was entirely in opposition to the 
advice of Hanyerry, who realized that the crafty foe 
would probably lead them into ambush. Thus the 
brave but rash young commander made a second 
grave mistake, for the guide's advice proved to be 
worthy of full confidence. 

As he had foreseen, the flying Indians led the com- 
mand within the enemy's borders and before Boyd 
was aware of it he and his men were surrounded by a 
force which has been variously estimated at from 500 
to 800 Indians and allied Tories. Again and again 
they made desperate efforts to escape, but without 

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success ; for what could such a pitiful handful of men 
do warring against such fearful odds. They fought 
valiantly, every moment expecting relief from the 
approaching army, which came, alas, too late ! 

Boyd and Parker were captured and taken to the 
Indian stronghold called Little Beard's Town, which 
is near the present village of Cuylerville. Here they 
were plied with many questions as to the strength and 
position of the various divisions of Sullivan's com- 
mand, but they resolutely refused to answer or to give 
any information as to the situation of our forces. Again 
and again they were interrogated, but to no purpose. 
They could doubtless have purchased their release by 
giving the information the enemy sought and they 
quite as surely apprehended what must be the cost of 
their refusal. But they were not formed of the stuff 
of which traitors are made and, like the heroes they 
were, would not speak the words which would have 
given to them life and liberty. They were then sub- 
jected to a series of the most inhuman and revolting 
tortures, the bare recital of which causes the bravest 
heart to quail and the bravest cheek to blanch. 
Mangled and mutilated, torn, cut and bleeding from 
the hands of their fiendish captors, but with lips still 
sealed, faithful to their sacred trust, human fortitude 
had reached its ultimate limit and they laid their noble 
lives upon the altar of loyal duty and patriotism. Ac- 
cording to Craft's chronicle, Boyd was, at the time of 
his death, 11 years old. He had enlisted as a sergeant 
in Captain Stephen Bayard's company from Derry, 

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Pennsylvania, in January, 1776, and was transferred 
to Captain Matthew Smith's company the following 
November, and in January, 1778, was made captain- 
lieutenant in the First Pennsylvania regiment. Soon 
after, with other riflemen, he was detached from his 
regiment and joined Colonel Butler's, and subsequently 
served under Major Parr. "He was of fine physique, 
engaging manners, brave almost to recklessness, he 
was endowed with the qualities which would command 
attention, without the cool judgment or firmness which 
would fit him for a leader." 

Michael Parker was a corporal in the First Penn- 
sylvania regiment, from which he was promoted to 
sergeant in Captain Simpson's company. 

Upon the entry of the army into Little Beard's 
Town, on September 14th, the remains of Boyd and 
Parker were discovered, and we read from the journals 
of the officers that the spectacle of their mangled 
bodies made even those strong, brave men, accustomed 
as they were to all the horrors of savage warfare, sicken 
and turn away from the pitiful sight. That night the 
remains were buried with military honors under a 
clump of wild plum trees at the confluence of two 
small streams whose union formed Beard's Creek. 

All the members of Boyd's command except his 
fellow prisoner. Sergeant Parker, fell upon the field 
where they had so desperately and hopelessly fought. 
On the 1 6th of September Captain William Hender- 
son of the Fourth Pennsylvania regiment, with sixty 
men detailed for the purpose, found the bodies of the 

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fourteen men who were slain, including that of Han- 
yerry, who was literally hacked to pieces, and buried 
them with suitable honors. They were buried in a 
trench on the exact scene of the massacre. The jour- 
nals of the officers differ slightly as to the number that 
were slain, but historians generally accept fourteen as 
the correct number, exclusive of Boyd and Parker. 
All the men in this little band were of dauntless 
bravery, fighting fiercely to the end. During the Revo- 
lution there were, no doubt, many instances of heroism 
and devotion as conspicuous as that of Lieutenant 
Boyd and his detachment, but this massacre, having 
occurred right here in our own valley of the Genesee, 
cannot fail to appeal most forcibly to our local interest 
in this most tragic episode of the Sullivan campaign. 
This was the nearest approach made to our own home 
by the stirring scenes of the revolution and we cannot 
but commend the foresight of our Rochester ancestors 
in their attempt to preserve the graves and honor the 
memory of the patriots of 1779 in 1 841, to which 
period we have now brought our narrative. 

Henry O'Reilly, born in Carrickmacross, Ireland, 
settled in Rochester in 1826 and established the " Ad- 
vertiser," the first daily newspaper west of Albany and 
which later, merged with the " Union," became the 
" Union and Advertiser" of our time. He was a man 
of liberal education and broad culture, a ready writer 
and eloquent speaker, and was public spirited to a de- 
gree. He became enthusiastically attached to this city 
of his adoption and for many years his pen and voice 

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were constantly employed in developing and advancing 
the interests of the rapidly growing city, and his in- 
fluence was a power in the community. While preparing 
his volume entitled " Sketches of Rochester," which 
was published in 1838, his attention was directed to 
the fact that the martyrs of Sullivan's expedition, who 
fell at Groveland, lay in neglected and unhonored 
graves, neglected and unhonored by the very people, 
in the defense of whose liberties they had sacrificed 
their lives. 

Strange, is it not, that a man of alien birth should 
be the first to awaken the slumbering patriotism of our 
citizens and direct their action on this subject ? It 
was discussed privately and publicly as the result of 
his agitation until, on the 3d of July, 1841, there 
appeared in his paper an editorial article which brought 
the matter to a focus, and which I quote : 

"The proximity of our national anniversary naturally 
excites reflection respecting the services of those bold 
spirits, whose patriotic course in field and council were 
blessed by Heaven to the establishment of American 
liberty. Unworthy would we be of the freedom we 
are enjoying, were we to prove forgetful inheritors of 
blessings secured through the storm and bloodshed of 
our glorious revolution ! The national honor would 
have been consulted by more liberal provision for the 
soldiers of that memorable strife. But as time rolls by 
— thinning their ranks with its unsparing scythe — the 
survivors, like the Sybilline leaves, increase in public 
esteem as they diminish in number. 

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" There were those who fell fighting our battles, 
whose memory has not been fully considered by the 
inheritors of the liberty for which they fought. This 
valley of the Genesee contains the relics of a gallant 
officer who bore arms for the republic against the former 
savage occupants, when they were leagued with British 
red-coats in desolating our frontiers with fire and sword. 

" The mouldering relics of that ill-fated warrior 
slumber now in an obscure grave, almost unknown, as 
it is without any memorial to apprise the passing 
traveler that beneath rests the gallant Boyd, the 
slaughtered officer in the advance guard of Sullivan's 
army. 

" The heroic valor of Boyd would be worthy of ad- 
miration under any circumstances ; but when we know 
that that valor was displayed in behalf of American 
liberty, and that his gallantry and his slaughter are 
identified with the history of the Genesee Valley, how 
much stronger are those claims rendered which impel 
us to testify our love for his patriotism, our sympathy 
for his fate, by some public testimonial of his worth, 
and of the gratitude of his country ! 

" It may be that our Rochester companies, recogniz- 
ing promptly all claims of honor and patriotism, will 
make an excursion this summer to remove the mould- 
ering remains from their lonely grave to our beautiful 
Mount Hope, and award the last military honors by 
a proper monument to the martyred soldiers." 

It needed only this suggestion from the press imme- 
diately to fire the community with enthusiasm. Mount 

Hope 

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Hope had recently been acquired by the city as a 
cemetery. It had been beautifully laid out and was a 
just source of pride to the citizens of the growing city. 
It was suggested to petition the Common Council to 
set aside a certain section of the grounds where the 
Sullivan martyrs could be interred, as well as all other 
revolutionary soldiers who died in or about Rochester, 
rather than erect a memorial over the grave of Boyd 
and Parker in Livingston county, the argument against 
the latter course being that at the junction of the two 
creeks where they were laid, the encroaching waters were 
slowly but surely washing away the banks to such an 
extent that in a few years more, it was feared, the site 
would be entirely obliterated. The several military 
organizations of Rochester immediately took up the 
idea, called special meetings and thoroughly approved 
the plan of the proposed removal, and a general com- 
mittee was chosen with Henry O'Reilly as chairman 
and James L. Elwood as secretary. 

On July 31st the Common Council appointed a 
special committee of three to meet the general com- 
mittee for the purpose of formulating arrangements for 
the removal of the remains. Aldermen Aaron Erick- 
son, Henry Cady and Joseph Field being appointed 
as the members of such committee. The Common 
Council records also show that on July 27th a memorial 
was presented from the several military corps and a 
number of prominent citizens, asking for the appro- 
priation of a part of Section R in Mount Hope 
as a burial place for soldiers who had served in the 

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revolution. The communication was referred to the 
committee on Mount Hope, with power to act. This 
same body, on August 13th, 1841, also received a 
communication from the general committee of arrange- 
ments inviting the council to attend the solemnities to 
be held on August 20th and 2,1st, which was accepted. 

The people of Livingston county, within the borders 
of which the ashes of the heroes lay, at first objected to 
the proposed removal, but at a meeting held in Gene- 
seo on August 14th, which was largely attended by the 
leading citizens of the county, it was resolved " that we 
duly appreciate the praiseworthy and patriotic exertion 
of the citizens of Rochester in establishing in the cem- 
etery at Mount Hope a suitable place for public inter- 
ment in Western New York of such of the revolutionary 
patriots as helped fight the battles of our country." 

" Resolved, that a committee be appointed to make 
all necessary arrangements for the purpose of convey- 
ing to Cuylerviile the remains of those soldiers of 
Lieutenant Boyd's detachment who fell at Groveland, 
in time for the services of the 20th." In pursuance 
of this resolution the committee was appointed and 
numbered some of the most distinguished names in the 
county. They zealously cooperated with the repre- 
sentatives of the city of Rochester in favoring the 
projected removal and proposed ceremonial. In fact, 
great interest was manifested throughout the entire 
Genesee Valley and a universal desire was expressed to 
aid in every way in contributing to the dignity and 
solemnity of the occasion. 

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On the 7th of August members of the Rochester 
and the Livingston county committees found the re- 
mains of Boyd and Parker near the edge of the bank 
at the junction of the two streams and within fifty feet 
of the road between Cuylerville and Geneseo, at pre- 
cisely the spot that had always been indicated as their 
resting place. They were buried together about eighteen 
inches below the surface, which was overgrown by the 
roots of dead plum trees. Dr. Thaddeus Garlock, 
formerly of Canandaigua, but then living in Cuylerville, 
examined the bones as they were unearthed and pro- 
nounced them parts of two human skeletons. No 
trace of one skull was found, clearly indicating that 
they were the bones of Boyd and Parker, both of whom 
were beheaded by the Indians, the head of Lieutenant 
Boyd being found after the massacre in one of the 
Indian huts. The nose and ears had been cut off, 
the eyes plucked out, and it had been scalped, but was 
at once recognized by several of his friends, because of 
its long silky hair. It was replaced, at the time of the 
burial, by two of his officer comrades. Captain Simpson 
and Captain Thomas Campbell* of the Fourth 
Pennsylvania. 

The bones of the two revolutionary heroes were 
disinterred in the presence of some twenty or thirty 
members of the committee, among whom were Henry 
O'Reilly, William H. Cheney and George Byington 
of Rochester, Colonel William T. Cuyler and S. L. 
Phelps 

'"See narrative of Captain Campbell in " Arnold's Campaign against Quebec," by John 
Joseph Henry, p. 118, published by Joel Munsell, Albany, 1877. 

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Phelps of Cuylerville and Captain David Shepard of 
Geneseo. The relics were placed in the care of a 
member of the committee at Cuylerville and soon after 
sealed in a large urn. This urn was turned from wood 
by George Beardsley and painted white to represent 
marble. Subsequently the Livingston county commit- 
tee caused to be erected over the spot whence the 
remains were taken, a cairn or pyramidal mound of 
stones. At the time of the ceremonies on the 20th, 
a resolution was introduced by Henry O'Reilly and 
unanimously adopted by the thousands present, naming 
the two streams Boyd's Creek and Parker's Creek, 
" to commemorate the names and services of those 
martyrs through all time, while grass grows and water 
runs." On the sixteenth of August the Livingston 
county committee located and disinterred the remains 
of the members of Boyd's command who were buried 
on the field where they fell at Groveland. These were 
carried to Cuylerville and enclosed in a stout wooden 
case, also made by Mr. Beardsley and spoken of by the 
local chroniclers of these events as " the sarcophagus." 
On the afternoon of August 19th a delegation con- 
sisting of five military companies, the committees with 
invited guests and two brass bands left Rochester in a 
flotilla of six boats via the Genesee Valley canal. Mayor 
Elijah F. Smith with a number of prominent citizens 
proceeded to Cuylerville in carriages. The delegation 
arrived at Mount Morris on the following morning, 
breakfasted and returned to Cuylerville. A number 
of the distinguished guests were entertained at the 

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home of Colonel Cuyler, located on a hill just above 
the village. On the hill was a grove of immense trees 
overlooking the valley, and it was in this grove, early 
in the afternoon, that the committees, guests and 
several thousand spectators assembled, many of them 
attracted from long distances. A procession was then 
formed and the remains of the martyrs were brought 
to the grove to the solemn measures of a dirge. The 
venerable Major Moses Van Campen, then aged 85 
years, was called upon to preside. He had been a 
schoolfellow of Boyd's and was his companion in arms 
in the Sullivan expedition. Beside him on the platform 
was Captain Elnathan Perry, aged 80, also a member 
of Sullivan's army, and Paul Sanborn, aged 79, who, 
as the troops entered Little Beard's Town, was the 
first to discover the mutilated corpses of Boyd and 
Parker while the blood was still flowing from their 
wounds and who had also assisted at their burial. 
There were also present upon the platform a number 
of other revolutionary soldiers. The ceremonies opened 
with prayer, and a dirge by one of the military bands, 
followed by an eloquent oration by Samuel Treat of 
Geneseo. The chairman. Major Van Campen, then 
made a brief speech feelingly recounting his love for 
Boyd and rehearsing the circumstances of his death, 
contrasting the scene before them with that of the day 
before the massacre, when all were full of hope and 
action. He ended by making the final surrender of the 
hallowed relics of the heroes, as a sacred trust, into 
the keeping of the Rochester delegation. Mayor E. 

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F. Smith accepted the charge in appropriate words. 
" A trust," he said, " which imposed on the citizens 
of Rochester the duty of rendering their resting place 
in that cemetery an appropriate mausoleum for those 
whose services in the cause of freedom entitled them 
to honor in death as in life." 

The flotilla took its departure from Cuylerville an 
hour before sunset and arrived at Rochester at sunrise 
August 2ist, its arrival here being announced by the 
firing of a national salute. At lo o'clock a procession 
was formed on the north side of Buffalo street, the 
right resting on Elizabeth street and facing the flotilla 
on the Erie canal. As the remains were borne along 
the line, the bands played the mournful strains of the 
" Dead March," the military saluted and the vast con- 
course of people uncovered and bowed their heads. 
The line of march was taken up through Buffalo street 
to Main street, and thence through St. Paul street to 
Mount Hope. Arriving at the cemetery the soldiery 
formed a cordon around the base of the hill designated 
as the resting place of the revolutionary patriots, 
where the urn and sarcophagus were deposited in their 
appointed places. The Rev. Elisha Tucker read the 
burial service of the Episcopal church and delivered a 
short and impressive address of dedication, closing with 
these words : 

" This beautiful spot on Mount Hope has been 
generously presented to your committee of arrange- 
ments, as a cemetery for the remains of revolutionary 
soldiers who have died, or may hereafter die, in the 

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valley of the Genesee ; and we do, therefore, on behalf 
of the citizens of Rochester and of this valley, and in 
the name of our country and of our country's God, 
most solemnly appropriate this ground to that sacred 
purpose." 

Chancellor Whittlesey then introduced Governor 
Seward, who made a stirring and eloquent address, at 
the close of which a salute was fired by the soldiers 
and the great assemblage dispersed, leaving the warrior 
dead in what, it was fondly supposed, would be their 
last resting place. 

Ah, if some one man on that large committeee in 
1 841 had only had the forethought to have taken a 
formal deed in trust of that plot of ground and had 
that deed recorded on the city's records it would have 
spared many bitter feelings as well as bitter words, 
and Revolutionary or Patriot's Hill, as it was repre- 
sented on the official map of Mount Hope, in 1846, 
would still be in existence and devoted to the sacred 
use to which " it was forever set apart and dedicated." 

Would that the chronicler's duty might have ended 
at this point and that this beautiful spot which the 
awakened patriotism of our ancestors consecrated had 
indeed been the last resting place of the heroes. 

Probably at no time in the history of this state had 
partisan spirit in politics run higher than in the early 
'forties. The animosities of party strife had reached a 
degree of bitterness scarcely possible to conceive. 
Hardly had the echoes of the bugles and drums that 
marked the solemn pageant at Mount Hope died away, 

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before the opposition began to manifest itself in many 
disagreeable ways. The Democrats claimed that this act 
of honoring and venerating the remains of the revolu- 
tionary soldiers was a mere ruse on the part of the then 
dominant Whig party to bring itself into prominence 
— the attendance of the governor of the state and his 
staff and distinguished citizens and survivors of the 
revolution — the military display with all " the pomp 
and circumstance" — this posing as the conservators 
of the country's glory in honoring its dead heroes, was 
but a bold bid for public favor and approbation — 
playing to the galleries, as it were. Not content with 
maligning the motives of the projectors and furtherers 
of this patriotic act, all manner of ridicule was cast 
upon the solemn ceremonies, but the bitterness and 
vindictiveness of the opposition culminated in casting 
doubt upon the authenticity of the relics of the patriots 
brought from Livingston county. It was insinuated 
that the committee had either been the victims of, or 
parties to, a wicked fraud, and at one time it was 
seriously alleged that the bones were" those of bears 
gathered up in an old den that had been recently un- 
earthed. Of course, as in duty bound, the members 
of the committee replied to these charges of careless- 
ness, bad faith and deception. They showed in detail 
what solicitous care had been exercised in identifying, 
beyond the possibility of doubt, the burial spot of 
Boyd and Parker, as well as that of the victims of the 
massacre at Groveland and disclosed their many proofs 
in support of the absolute certainty of their position. 

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Nevertheless a bitter controversy of words followed 
through several weeks until the absolute statements of 
witnesses, supported by convincing affidavits, put an 
end to the cavilings and the voices of the doubting 
Thomases were silenced. 

It seems fitting, however, to refer again to the ques- 
tion of the genuineness of the remains lest there be 
some still living among us who harbor in their minds 
any lingering doubts. It is, unfortunately, in this world 
of ours, so much easier to give currency to a false re- 
port than to its refutation. A calumny once uttered 
seems to leave a far deeper impress upon the mind of 
the hearer than does its denial. As we have said, the 
committees having the matter in charge used the ut- 
most care in verifying the localities where the bones 
of the Sullivan victims were laid and spared no pains 
in availing themselves of all possible means to identify 
them thoroughly. The diaries of Sullivan's officers, 
which were singularly full and complete, would have 
seemed to have left no room for question on this 
point. They described so minutely and circumstan- 
tially the details of the capture of Boyd and Parker, 
their subsequent tortures, death and burial, as well as 
the burial by Captain Henderson's detachment of the 
men under Boyd's command, who fell on the field of 
the massacre, that they seemed to dispose of any doubt 
that might have arisen. The bones of Boyd and 
Parker were found at exactly the spot which history 
and local tradition ascribed as their place of interment, 
" under a clump of wild plum trees at the intersection 

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of two creeks near Cuylerville and by the side of the 
road leading to Geneseo." The skeletons were found 
in a shallow grave and one of the skulls was missing, 
as Boyd and Parker were beheaded by their captors, 
and Boyd's head only was found. 

Then, be it remembered, the spot was positively 
identified by three officers of the command in which 
Boyd served, one of whom, Sanborn, had been the 
man who discovered the bodies and assisted in their 
burial. They were disinterred in the presence of a 
number of early settlers of the town of Leicester, who 
had lived their lives in homes that immediately sur- 
rounded the place which local tradition had always 
marked as the grave of the gallant young officer. No 
less accurate or certain had been the identification of 
the trench in which lay the bodies of those who fell at 
Groveland. This spot had been pointed out again and 
again by some of the command who found the bodies 
of the soldiers where they had fallen. Members of 
the command of Captain Henderson of the Fourth 
Pennsylvania, who had been sent to bury the dead on 
the third day after the massacre and had performed 
that sad duty, carefully noted the exact locality. In 
addition to this, the marking of the spot had been fully 
corroborated by some who had been prisoners among 
the Indians at the time of the slaughter. And again, 
the remains themselves, when disinterred, offered mute 
testimony as to their identity in the fragments of mili- 
tary clothing and ornaments and the buttons that were 
found with them, bearing the insignia of the Continen- 
tal 

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tal army. Who could ever have believed for a single 
moment that such names as those of Allan Ayrault, 
William T. Cuyler, Henry Swan, Elijah F. Smith and 
Johnson I. Robbins could have been associated, how- 
ever remotely, with deception or fraud ; who could 
have believed that such an able, accurate and experi- 
enced historian as Henry O'Reilly could have been 
deceived, or that such an honorable and honored citizen 
as Judge Treat could have lifted his eloquent voice in 
the celebration of an untruth ? 

At the time of the removal it was expected that the 
wooden urn and sarcophagus would serve but a tem- 
porary purpose and that the same interest which had 
provided for the transfer to Mount Hope would, in 
good time, provide a suitable and lasting memorial to 
mark the resting place, superseding the perishable 
encasements. But it seems that the enthusiasm pres- 
ently died out with the abatement of the excitement 
of the hour. After years of exposure to the elements 
the base of the urn decayed and it fell, breaking open 
and exposing some of the bones, so that it became 
necessary to bury them with the others which had been 
brought from Groveland. The Civil war was now at 
its height, all thoughts and interests were concentrated 
upon the fortunes of our armies then in the field, 
fortunes none too bright in some of those days. This 
war was real and present and it was little wonder that, 
living in such stirring times, the thoughts of the revo- 
lution became a shadowy memory only. Money was 
very scarce and everyone was denying himself what 

he 

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he might, bearing crushing burdens of taxation and 
saving that he might send comforts to " the boys at 
the front " and care for the famiUes at home who 
missed their accustomed bread-winners, and to rescue 
from poverty the widows and orphans of the fallen 
brave. These indeed were live issues and, naturally 
enough, perhaps, Patriot Hill was neglected and allowed 
to go to ruin. There was little time or opportunity 
for the sentiment that clusters around olden memories. 
There were new graves now on the hillsides and slopes 
of Mount Hope, graves marked with little flags and 
upon whose mounds were wreaths of flowers kept 
fresh by the tears that were still flowing and beside 
which sat hearts that were still bleeding. 

The demand for burial lots in the cemetery was much 
greater than the supply and at this time no money could 
be spared from the depleted treasury of the city to ac- 
quire more land. No one held a title to Patriot Hill. 
No record of its gift from the city was on file save in 
the Common Council proceedings of July 27, 1841, 
where we read that this body set aside part of section 
R, for the burial of Revolutionary soldiers. The title 
still vested in the city of Rochester. This lot had 
become very valuable, too valuable, some of the mer- 
cenary ones who then guided the city's afi^airs, seem to 
have thought, to be longer dedicated to sentiment or 
patriotism, for a petition was presented to the Common 
Council* at its meeting on May 10, 1864, and was 
reported by the committee on Mount Hope as follows : 

" The 

*Page 34, volume of Council reports for 1864—8. 

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Where Bodies of Revolutionary Soldiers Were Found. 



and its Sequel I J J g — I go J 

" The undersigned committee on Mount Hope 
cemetery respectively petition for authority to grade 
and improve the portion of the ground in said ceme- 
tery, heretofore set apart by the council for the burial 
of revolutionary soldiers, and also to sell that part of 
same not required for the purpose specified," signed 
by the committee. On motion, the communication 
was accepted and adopted. We see that permission 
was given to sell lot 85, section R, but no provision 
was made officially for the disposition of the bones. 
There had been but few burials on the plot beside the 
remains brought from Livingston county in 1841. 
The records of Mount Hope state that the Rev. 
Ebenezer Vining was buried from Gates, August 25, 
1843, aged 90, died from old age, buried on Revolu- 
tionary Hill. Upon the death of Mr. Vining the 
Second Baptist church of Rochester, of which he was 
a member, erected a stone to his memory, setting forth 
his revolutionary service, and placed it on Revolution- 
ary Hill. The records also show that Jacob Hayden 
was buried from Lancaster street in this city, August 
I, 1849, ag^d ^7 years, buried on Revolutionary Hill. 
Henry Darling was buried from Court street in this 
city, October 6, 1 849, aged 90 years, buried on Revo- 
lutionary Hill. Also, John Terington was buried 
from Main street in this city, January i, 1850, aged 
90 years, died from old age, buried on Revolutionary 
Hill. There was another revolutionary soldier also 
buried there, whose remains were afterwards removed 
by friends to another lot. 

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The Mount Hope authorities had then, as they have 
now, the right to remove graves from public grounds, 
to which the city still held the title. This lot was in 
a portion of the cemetery which had at this time be- 
come very desirable and the lots were quite valuable. 
The superintendent, Chauncey Parsons, acting, it is to 
be presumed, with authority, had the remains quietly 
removed to the public grounds in section Y, removing 
also the headstone of the Rev. Ebenezer Vining, thus 
leaving a clue that eventually led to the discovery of 
the bones removed from Patriot Hill. One of the 
first acts of Irondequoit Chapter after its organization 
in 1894 was the appointment of a committee charged 
with the decoration of all identified graves of revolu- 
tionary soldiers in or about Rochester, on each 4th of 
July. This act led to an investigation as to why the 
gravestone of the Rev. Ebenezer Vining was in the 
public ground in section Y, and resulted finally in the 
satisfactory identification of the remains removed from 
Patriot Hill. The graves were found in a terraced lot 
and showed evidence of having had special attention 
and care, which had not been given to the others in 
that section ; the graves had been kept mounded up 
and in perfect order. The martyrs of Sullivan's cam- 
paign, with the Rev. Ebenezer Vining's remains, were 
in four graves lying from north to south, marked by 
Mr. Vining's stone, while those of Jacob Hayden, 
John Terington and Henry Darling were lying in 
graves from east to west in the same relative position 
they were in on Patriot Hill. 

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The cemetery, until 1866, was under the entire 
control of the Common Council. The office of super- 
intendent was a political one and, with the changes in 
the administration of the city, usually came a change 
in the office of superintendent. In 1866, with the 
coming in of a new city charter, a commission was 
created consisting of three members, into whose hands 
was relegated the entire control of the cemetery. It is 
only just to call attention to the fact that the controlling 
power of Mount Hope, as it is now constituted, can 
in no way, legally or morally, be held accountable for 
what was done prior to the creation of the commission. 

It is difficult to adequately express in words the obli- 
gation that is due to Mrs. Josephine Gregg Chappell 
for the dilligent and patient search she made to find 
the graves. It is due to Mrs. Chappell that, through 
her perseverance and energy, the remains taken from 
Patriot Hill were located. After fully verifying the 
identity of the graves, a committee was appointed by 
Mrs. William E. Hoyt, the regent of Irondequoit 
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, to 
confer with a committee from Rochester Chapter, Sons 
of the American Revolution. The object of this 
joint committee was to ascertain what could be done 
to rescue and suitably provide for the permanent care 
of the remains of these heroes who had so long lain in 
neglected, unmarked and unhonored graves. The 
Mount Hope authorities were interviewed and, after 
several meetings, the commissioners of the cemetery 
made a deed of gift of the south half of lot 248 in 

section 
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An Episode of the Sullivan Campaign 

section BB, to the Sons and Daughters of the American 
Revolution, provided that ^loo should be paid in 
order to ensure the perpetual care of the lot. The 
deed was duly executed and recorded in the city clerk's 
office and at the same time a contract for the perpetual 
care of the lot was executed by Mount Hope. The 
entire expense of disinterring and removing the bones, 
which was most carefully and satisfactorily done, was 
borne by the cemetery. 

On October 31, 1903, a committee from the Sons 
and Daughters of the American Revolution, with the 
superintendent, John W. Keller, were present at the 
opening of the graves and supervised the transfers to 
the new lot. The martyrs of the Sullivan campaign, 
with the Rev. Mr. Vining's remains, had been care- 
fully preserved in boxes, showing that they had had 
proper care in the removal from Patriot Hill. The 
bones were critically examined and were unmistakably 
human, forever setting at rest the absurd story as to 
their being other than human bones. The other three 
graves were easily identified as those of soldiers, for, in 
transferring them, ancient army buttons were found. 
The bones were carefully transferred to strong boxes 
and were gently and tenderly borne to the resting place 
where it is devoutly hoped and believed they may 
never again be disturbed until time is no more and the 
grave shall give up its dead. 

The following day, Sunday, November i, 1903, 
being All Saints' Day, was that set apart for the com- 
memorative service at Mount Hope, and it was a day 

never 
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never to be forgotten by those who took part in its 
simple service. It was the culminating act of many- 
years of patient search. It was the fruition of all that 
had been long before conceived and undertaken and 
had been so unfalteringly and earnestly carried to its 
successful issue. 

Nothing had been forgotten or overlooked by the 
committee of arrangements or by the commissioners or 
superintendent of the cemetery that would contribute 
to the comfort of the guests or to the interest and 
solemnity and beauty of the service. A number of 
extra cars were provided, running to the south gate, 
the road leading thence to the lot was marked by a 
line of guiding flags, a huge marquee tent had been 
erected over the lot, the front being turned back facing 
the graves, and outside a wide space had been roped 
off to prevent intrusion. An ample force was detailed 
for special service to preserve order, by the police 
authorities. The Eighth Separate Company under 
Captain C. A. Simmons volunteered its service and 
was present in force with all of its officers and in full 
dress uniform, formed in two solid ranks across the 
front of the tent and at the foot of the graves, and a 
large concourse of interested spectators had assembled 
all around the enclosure. Within the tent were num- 
bers of Daughters and Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion, with their invited guests, members of the Grand 
Army of the Republic and other patriotic societies. 
The guests of honor were the venerable Mrs. Samuel 
Treat, late of St. Louis, the widow of Judge Treat, 

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An Episode of the Sullivan Campaign 

who had delivered the oration at Cuylerville, on the 
day of the removal of the remains from Livingston 
county to Rochester, sixty-two years before, and Mrs. 
William S. Little, the honored state regent of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution. 

The service opened with a prayer, in thoughtful 
words which brought tears to many eyes, by Mrs. 
William A. Montgomery, the chaplain of Irondequoit 
Chapter. Then came a most impressive singing of 
" America " by the Daughters, Sons and guests, joined 
by the spectators. The music was led by a cornet in 
skilled hands. Never before, I will venture to say, 
have the hills and groves of that City of the Dead 
echoed to such a rendering of the beautiful harmony 
and soul-stirring words of that grand old hymn. This 
was followed by a spirited address, framed in well 
chosen sentences and filled with the suggestive lessons 
of the hour, by the Rev, Murray Bartlett of St. Paul's 
church. President Rhees of the University of Roch- 
ester offered a prayer which, brief as it was, reached 
every heart, and following was a short address from the 
Rev. L. T. Foote, who spoke in behalf of the Grand 
Army of the Republic and closed with the committal 
from the beautiful ritual of the Grand Army, sprinkling 
earth into the still open graves, as he recited the solemn 
words which committed " earth to earth, dust to dust, 
ashes to ashes." A few moments of absolute silence, 
then there came three sharp ringing volleys fired with 
absolute precision by the soldiers of the Eighth, the 
colors lowered in salute and, after another moment of 

silence, 
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silence, "Taps" were sounded by the buglers of the 
company, and then, while the graves were being filled, 
a few of the faithful, loving hands that had so patiently 
wrought and had made the service and the celebration 
of this day possible, strewed the newly made mounds 
with rare flowers, and the assemblage quietly dispersed 
to their homes. 

Who could feel but pity, deepest pity, for anyone 
who looked unmoved upon that scene, who listened 
to the music or to the words there spoken, with heart 
not stirred to its very depths? It seemed as if nature 
had benignantly set her seal of approval upon this 
tribute to the sacrifice of those martyrs whose blood, 
an hundred and twenty-four years ago, had hallowed 
the valley which lay below us. It was one of those 
radiant late autumnal days, which are the glory of the 
waning year in this latitude. The scene from the height 
where the lot is situate commands a wide sweeping 
view of the valley, the winding ribbon of the river re- 
flecting on its placid surface the soft vault of the sky, 
the fertile fields and wooded slopes in one direction, 
the bridges, spires and crowded thoroughfares of the 
now great city in the other, with the blue waters of 
Lake Ontario for an horizon. Around and about are 
giant trees, hedges and shrubbery among which are the 
mute memorials of the city's dead, the Grand Army's 
resting place for its soldiers of the Civil war and the 
city's brave firemen who no longer listen through the 
watches of the night for the alarm bell. The air was 
so balmy and still on that afternoon that it scarcely 

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An Episode of the Sullivan C ampaign 

carried away the cloud of smoke from the rifles far 
enough to let it hang in a purple haze in the valley 
to the north, while the echoes of the soft " Sleep, Rest, 
Good Night " of the bugles still came faintly back 
from the distant hills. The sun was slowly sinking 
toward the west, lengthening the shadows, and the 
golden glory of its beams fell like a benediction on 
those seven flower-covered mounds of the heroes, 
under the flag they had so loved, when its stars were 
few, that they had given up all that humanity holds 
most dear, without a murmur, and had lain down their 
lives that they might transmit its glory, and all for 
which its stars and stripes stand symbol, to us, to our 
children and to our children's children forever. 



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APPENDIX 

In Reverend David Craft's Historical Address, published in " Gen- 
eral Sullivan's Indian Expedition, 1779," page 369, he gives partial 
lists of those of Boyd's little band that escaped and those who were 
kiUed. 

Escaped : 

Timothy Murphy David Elerson 

Edward McDonald Garret Putnam 

John Youse 
Those slain : 

Nicholas Hungerman James McElroy 

John Conrey John Miller 

William Faughey John Putnam 

William Harvey Benjamin Curtin 

Hanyerry, the Oneida Chief 



From Common Council Records, July 27, 1841. 

By Alderman Southerin : Memorial from several mihtary corps, and 
other citizens of Rochester, for an appropriation of a part of section R, 
Mount Hope, as a burial place for revolutionary soldiers. 

Referred to committee on Mount Hope, with power to act as to 
any immediate interments. 

Committee on Mount Hope : W. J. Southerin, Erasmus D. Smith, 
George Arnold. 

The escort to Mount Hope was arranged as follows, but in reversed 
order : 

Governor Seward, Chancellor Whittlesey 
Adjutant-General Rufus King 
Surgeon- General McNaughton 
Major-General John A. Granger and 



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APPENDIX 



Colonel George W. Bemis of Ontario county 

Major-General Hestor L. Stevens 

Brigadier- General Joseph Wood 

Brigadier-General W. E. Lathrop 

Colonel John Allen 

Colonel E. Darwin Smith 

Colonel Jason Bassett and Staff 

Lieutenant- Colonel Goodhue 

Major Amon Bronson 

Major Samuel Richardson 

Major William Churchill 

C. H. Bryan, chairman, S. Treat, orator, and 

W. H. Kelsey of Livingston County Committee 

Chairman and Members of Rochester Committee 

Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Rochester 

Rev. Messrs. Tucker, Carlton and Tooker 

Revolutionary Soldiers, Pall Bearers 

The Hearse, Urn, etc. 



Col. Amos Sawyer, Marshal of the Day 



WILLIAMS' LIGHT INFANTRY 
Commissioned Officers 
Major John Williams Captain George A. Gibbs 

First Lieutenant James Miller Second Lieutenant J. C. CampbeP 

Non- Commissioned Officers and Privates 



H. Shears, Jr. 
George R. Thomas 
Henry C. Church 
C. H. Sholtus 
J. B. Lockwood 
M. Witbeck 
F. H. Marshall 
William Jewell 
Robert A. Hall 



E. Ide 

David McKay 
John B. Dewey 
Timothy Dunn 
E. McGeara 
Geo. W. Dingman 
J. B. South worth 

C. Brown 

D. C. Roberts 



J. K. Anderson 
Thomas T. Gilman 
M. H. Swift 
H. Gaul 
H. McDonnell 
W. Putnam 
Cornelius Fielding 
F. W. Harris 
W. Curtiss 



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J. Putnam 
George Whitney 
J, M. Whitney 
WilUam C. Storrs 
F. F. Parker 



APPENDIX 

James Henderson 
F. Henry Tucker 
Charles C. Lunt 
C. Bristol 
Samuel Kershaw 



E. Scoville 
W. R. Gordon 
H. Grinnell 
Jacob Howe 
C. F. Randolph 



ROCHESTER UNION GRAYS 

Commissioned Officers 

Captain L. B. Swan 

First Lieutenant W. H. Cheney Second Lieutenant N. R. Child 

First Lieutenant H. P. Dannals Ensign Geo. W. Fisher 

Non- Commissioned Officers and Privates 



Ariel Wentworth 
Daniel Osborn 
Nicol Beard 
WiUiam M. Hayes 
William H. Beach 
S. L. Wright 
James Crouch 
P. B. Loomis 
Heman Loomis 
George F. Hall 
David Moody 
E. D. McKillip 
A. H. Huntley 



H. W. Bowker 
John Fairbanks 
C. C. Lathrop 
P. P. Thayer 
Frederick Peck 
John Wegman 
Mason A. Fisher 
J. Calhoun 
W. C. Brown 
O. Robinson 
S. Gar butt 
E. W. Bryan 



J. Y. Dannals 
Charles Hubbell 
E. B. Collins 
J. Graham Klinck 
James Wilkin 
John H. Babcock 
J. C. Hyatt 
V. R. Jackson 
Amos Van Brunt 
Alfred Judson 
T. D. Jackson 
David H. Cantley 



ROCHESTER CITY CADETS 

Commissioned Officers 

Captain Hiram A. Tucker 

First Lieutenant James L. Elwood Second Lieutenant D. M. Dewey 

Non- Commissioned Officers and Privates 
George B. Bingham W. B. Howe George Wells 

I. W. Leonard E. S. Church W. W. Smith 

Charles Winn L. S. Hoyt William Dumont 



zs 



E. J. Moore 
William Weyburn 
J. H. Fink 
Adam McClure 
Charles D. Robinson 
Geo. L. G. Seeyle 
A. A. Bingham 
A. H. Ball 
Thomas McGregor 



APPENDIX 

B. E. Stevens 
J. O. Kilbourn 
A. A. Schenck 
J. H. Morrison 
Francis S. Rew 
M. F. Stilwell 
Samuel Jillson 
E. C. Johnson 
H. M. Waterman 



William W. BniiF 
Charles Townsend 
C. W, Morgan 
George Adams 
Isaac Messier 
J. G. Stebbins 
William P. Wilson 
J. S. Wilson 



GERMAN GRENADIERS 

Commissioned Officers 

Captain Peter Klein 

First Lieutenant George EUwanger Second Lieutenant A. Kiefer 

Non- Commissioned Officers and Privates 



P. Schweitzer 

F. Kunzy 

R. Schneeberger 

G. Shale 
G, Neier 
J. Walter 

E. Hock 
B. Shoeffel 
J. Weber 

F. Golsong 



L. Franklin 
F. Lauer 

F. Heidacker 
J- Beggy 

C. Aebersold 

G. Schirck 
J. Zeigler 
G. Dieterich 
J. Henky 
K. Knopf 



L. Weiss 
G. Merkhnger 
F. Hengen 
M. Huber 
W. Gerber 
W. Maurer 
R. Held 
F. Foss 
K. Listmann 



ROCHESTER ARTILLERY CORPS 

Commissioned Officers 

Captain Hiram Davis 
First Lieutenant N. B. Ellison Second Lieutenant G. S. Jennings 

Non- Commissioned Officers and Privates 
John Wilson Charles E. Jennings Otis Potter 

Edwin N. Brown N. B. Gardner Benjamin Gilbert 

R. W. Underhill Nathaniel Thompson Thomas Gordon 



z(> 



T. W. Van Vleck 
Henry Alexander 
Joseph Hawksworth 
Peter P. Mellen 
James Howland 



APPENDIX 

Joseph Gilbert 
Thomas Hurley 
George Wilson 
James Patterson 
Henry Rice 

FIRE DEPARTMENT 



Lewis Gilbert 
Thomas A. Jennings 
J. D. Potter 
Lewis Trogue 



Fire Engine Company Number Four 
Josiah W, Bissell, Foreman 



H. Haight, First Assistant Foreman 
E, Brown, Second Assistant Foreman 



John T. Tallman 
Elijah F. Willson 
Lucius Bell 
E. K. Blyth 
Timothy B. Grant 
Newell A. Stone 
Samuel W. Haight 
S. B. Williams 
H. S. Fairchild 
J. Hawks, Jr. 
W. Y. Andrews 
James Gorsline 
N. F. Bradstreet 
J. E, Murdock 
Albert L. Wakelee 
James Covert 
William Riley 



James Riley 
George Riley 
Henry Riley 
George Tobey 

B. F. Young 
F. Breck 
WilHam Dumont 
James Frink 
W. H. Perry 
J. M. Weeks 
H. Granger 
W. Anderson 

C. W. Carr 
E. J. Pratt 
J. D. Robinson 
H. Jackson 



H. F. Smith, Secretary 
T. Hawks, Standard Bearer 
F. F. Parker 
J. W. Arnold 
James Decker 
C. G. McKnight 
James W. Bingham 
Matthew Whitbeck 
R. Allen 
J. M. Chappell 
Augustus Pardee 
Jacob Strong 
J. H. Hayes 
J. Dawsey 
George Bixby 
Jonathan Child 
S. W. Dibble 
James H. Goodman 



Fire Engine Company Number Six 
John L Reilly, Foreman 
John Cowles, Assistant Foreman S. B. Langworthy, Secretary 

Junius Judson J. E. Walker A. M. Redding 

M, B. Bateham R. F. Warren David Hyatt 

Ira Haskins D. L. Barhydt John T. Fox 



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James H. Kelly 
William H. Burtiss 

B. L. SouUard 
Elijah Howard 
Ira Justin 

Thomas Cunnington 
Alonzo Bennet 

W. L, Raymond 

C. A. Bourgoin 
T. J. Langworthy 



APPENDIX 

G. W. Polly 
Francis Brown 
D. P. Brown 
U. B. Sheldon 
T. O. Dudley 
H. S. Brace 
Farrington Price 
J. H. Halpin 
James Cowles 
John Heaphy 



William Andrews 
A. Karnes 
T. B. Forsyth 
Warren Burtis 
James H. Benson 
Samuel Palmer 
John Hinkston 
F. H. Marshall 
A. G. Matlack 
Hiram Brush 



From Common Council Records, May io, 1864. 
(Page 34, Volume marked 1864-8.) 
Presented by Alderman Cram from Mount Hope Committee. 
The undersigned committee of Mount Hope Cemetery respectfiilly 
petition for authority to grade and improve the portion of the ground 
in said cemetery heretofore set apart by the Council for the burial of 
revolutionary soldiers, and also to sell that part of same not required 
for the purpose specified, 

(Signed) WILLIAM BREWSTER. 
HENRY BENDER. 
J. E. PIERPONT. 

By Alderman Cram : 

Resolved, That the committee of Mount Hope be and are hereby 
authorized to grade and improve that portion of the ground in said 
cemetery heretofore set apart by the Council to be used for the burial 
of revolutionary soldiers, and also to sell that part of same not required 
for the purpose specified. Adopted. 



At Mount Hope the following committee were present at the open- 
ing of the graves in section Y, October 31, 1903 : 

Mrs. William E. Hoyt, Regent of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution ; Mrs. Frederick W, Yates, Mrs. Josephine G. Chappell, 
Mrs. George M. Elwood ; Mr. George May Elwood, representing 
the Sons of the American Revolution. 



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APPENDIX 

State of New York 
County of Monroe 

I, John W. Keller, of the City of Rochester, superintendent of 
Mount Hope Cemetery, do certify that the contents of the seven graves 
removed under my supervision and in the presence of the committee of 
the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, from section Y 
to lot No. 248, section BB, on the 31st of October, 1903, were the 
remains of the revolutionary soldiers which were transferred some years 
since from Patriot Hill, lot 85, section R. 

(Signed) JOHN W. KELLER, 

Superintendent of Mount Hope. 

Subscribed and sworn before me this ) 
I ith day of January, A. D. 1904. j 

R. J. RuLIFFSON, 

Commissioner of Deeds. 



State of New York 
County of Monroe 



> ss. 



I, Patrick Gaffney, foreman of Mount Hope Cemetery, of the city 
of Rochester, N. Y., do certify that the contents of the seven graves 
removed in my presence and in the presence of the Committee of the 
Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, from section Y to lot 
248, section BB, on the 31st of October, 1903, were the remains of 
the revolutionary soldiers which were transferred some years since from 
Patriot Hill, lot No. 85, section R. 

(Signed) PATRICK GAFFNEY, 
Foreman, Mount Hope Cemetery. 

Subscribed and sworn before me this | 
I Ith day of January, A. D. 1904. ) 

R. J. Ruliffson, 

Commissioner of Deeds. 



The deed of lot No. 248, section BB, is deposited with the Roch- 
ester Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. 



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